Subject: Re: [PATCH] fixes for ActiveState Perl

From: Rafael Kitover <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:39:09 -0500

On 2/14/2011 7:49 AM, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
...
>> diff --git a/perl/Makefile b/perl/Makefile
>> index a2ffb64..1fa99cd 100644
>> --- a/perl/Makefile
>> +++ b/perl/Makefile
>> @@ -3,18 +3,28 @@
>>  #
>>  makfile:=perl.mak
>>
>> +# support PERL_PATH=C:\\Perl\\bin\\perl
>> +PERL_PATH := $(subst \,\\,$(PERL_PATH))
>> +
>>  PERL_PATH_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(PERL_PATH))
>> +PERL_MAKE := MAKEFLAGS="" $(subst \,\\,$(shell $(subst \,\\,$(PERL_PATH)) -MConfig -le "print ((\%Config)->{make})"))
>> +
>> +ifneq (,$(findstring nmake,$(PERL_MAKE)))
>> +       PERL_MAKE := $(PERL_MAKE) -nologo
>> +endif
>> +
>>  prefix_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(prefix))
>>
>>  ifndef V
>>        QUIET = @
>>  endif
>>
>> +
> 
> Why?

Windows perl (activestate, strawberry) uses nmake or dmake. The
makefiles for these makes are incompatible with GNU make. This code
retrieves the make Perl would use from its Config, and uses that on
invoking perl.mak .

This should also allow for using EU::MM for the MSVC+ActiveState build.